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    An election to Kildare County Council took place on 20 June 1985 as part of the 1985 Irish local elections. 25 councillors were elected from five local...
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    Kildare County Council (Irish: Comhairle Contae Chill Dara) is the local authority of County Kildare, Ireland. As a county council, it is governed by the...
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  • (Reorganisation) Act 1985: the borough of Galway (which previously had a 12-member borough council) ceased to be part of County Galway and became a county borough...
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    An election to Kildare County Council took place on 27 June 1991 as part of that year's Irish local elections. 25 councillors were elected from six local...
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    Dublin city and county. Exclaves of the county of Dublin existed in counties Kildare and Wicklow. At least eight other enclaves of one county inside another...
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    for services to the west (Galway and County Mayo), the south (Cork, Limerick, Tralee) and the east (Dublin, Kildare). Portarlington halt opened on 26 June...
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    emerging small city. The third smallest county by land area, Dublin is bordered by Meath to the west and north, Kildare to the west, Wicklow to the south and...
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    Fingal (redirect from County Fingal)
    by County Meath to the north, by Kildare to the west and by Dublin city to the south. At the Strawberry Beds, the River Liffey separates the county from...
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    Houses of the Oireachtas (parliament), or at least four of the 31 county or city councils, or themselves, in the case of a former or retiring president who...
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  • Gerry Brady (category Members of Kildare County Council)
    the 1987 general election, and did not stand for Dáil Éireann again. At the 1985 local elections he was elected to Kildare County Council as a councillor...
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    Laoghaire–Rathdown (to the east), County Kildare (to the west) and its hills adjoin the mountains of County Wicklow to the south. The county town is Tallaght. Other...
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    Seán Ó Fearghaíl (category Members of Kildare County Council)
    member of Kildare County Council in 1985. He first stood for election to Dáil Éireann in the Kildare constituency at the 1987 general election, but was...
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    Longford County Council, Tomás Ó Curraoin Galway County Council, Seán O'Neill Limerick City Council, Mick Ryan Limerick City Council, Des Dalton Kildare County...
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    with Kildare and Laois to the north, Kilkenny to the west, Wicklow to the east and Wexford to the southeast. Carlow is known as "The Dolmen County", a...
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    Austin Currie (category Politicians from County Tyrone)
    opposition to the 1985 Anglo Irish Agreement. Following his decision to quit Northern Ireland politics, and relocate his family to County Kildare, Currie became...
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  • Patsy Lawlor (category Politicians from County Kildare)
    member to Kildare County Council at the 1974 local elections for the Naas electoral area; and re-elected at the 1979 local elections. From the 1985 local...
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    Celbridge (category Towns and villages in County Kildare)
    [ˌciːl̠ʲ ˈd̪ˠɾˠeːdʲ]) is a town and townland on the River Liffey in County Kildare, Ireland. It is 23 km (14 mi) west of Dublin. Both a local centre and...
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    rights campaigner. He also received the nominations of five county councils: Carlow, Clare, Kildare, South Dublin and Wexford. The Progressive Democrats helped...
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    Eric Donovan (category Boxers from County Kildare)
    on a Ricky Hatton promoted show at the National Stadium in Dublin. The Kildare boxer quickly racked up four wins in his first year as before taking on...
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    Harristown (civil parish) (category Civil parishes of County Kildare)
    In elections to Kildare County Council, Harristown ED has been in local electoral areas centred on either Athy (1991 and since 2009) or Kildare (1955–1985...
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    Ernest Shackleton (category Military personnel from County Kildare)
    period known as the Heroic Age of Antarctic Exploration. Born in Kilkea, County Kildare, Ireland, Shackleton and his Anglo-Irish family moved to Sydenham in...
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    Tom Kitt (politician) (category Members of Dublin County Council)
    Dublin County Council for the local electoral area of Whitechurch, and in 1985 for Dundrum. He was elected to Dáil Éireann at the 1987 general election as...
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    results and transfer of votes in respect of each county, and county borough council : and election statistics relating to all local authorities (PDF)...
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    Charlie McCreevy (category Politicians from County Kildare)
    subsequent election until he joined the European Commission. Between 1979 and 1985, he served as an elected member of the Kildare County Council.[citation...
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    currently elects six of the 33 members of Kerry County Council. In the 2019 Kerry County Council election, six councillors were elected from the Listowel...
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  • Athy Cllr Mark Dalton's resignation leaves vacant seat at Kildare County Council office". Kildare Now. Retrieved 14 May 2019. Andrews, Kernan (10 March 2016)...
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    John Devoy (category People from Kill, County Kildare)
    the Irish War of Independence of 1919–1921. Devoy was born in Kill, County Kildare, on 3 September 1842 the son of a farmer and labourer named William...
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    Phil Hogan (category Members of Kilkenny County Council)
    age of 22, when he was elected to Kilkenny County Council. He retained that seat in the 1985 Local Elections when he topped the poll in his area. Around...
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  • people will remember the last time a Kildare team were raging hot favourites heading into an important inter-county championship clash with Galway. No need...
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    four of the 34 county or city councils, or themself, in the case of a former president who has served one term. Presidential elections are conducted under...
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